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Mike Fishwick wrote:......probably also believe in Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy!

What!!!!?

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That does seem like a big price hike, going from 1,40 to 1,58.
I think it is about 6p over here, so a complete no brainer.

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Let the tank run right down and thought I would try Shell V-power. Put 50 euros worth in on Saturday and apart from costing €1.58 per litre as opposed to €1.40 per litre for normal unleaded I have yet to determine any difference. So will be going back to 2 star! I doubt 50 litres will make a differ...

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BladeRunner919 wrote:
lightning wrote:It does take a good shove to get past the detent in the gate.
That's probably correct - stops you accidentally selecting reverse before you burn away from the lights!

An oldie but can't help make you smile....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMJhOSdxQVg&feature=kp

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I had the sticking gear shift on mine, where it wanted to go into 5th all the time. I put in some redline ATF into last week and with 5 miles it had cured it.
Well worth doing.

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Ahhhh yeah, just seen his post.

I wonder how much?

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TR4man wrote:From one extreme to the other....

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/ ... hp/2332265

Sold quickly for a £43k M Coupe.

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deni2s wrote:Maybe I need to change oil in my gear box? How often do you do that? Will it make any difference? Not sure if oil was ever changed in it (1997 car and I own it for 6 years). Any thoughts?

Look at my post a couple above yours, it made a huge difference.

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I used that stuff on my wine rack at home, the front surround kept coming off with all sorts, superglue, gluegun etc. but that stuff keeps it on a treat.

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Run it low.

And put 3 or 4 tanks in, then if you go back you will notice it more.

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You need to give it around half a tankful at least.
You could pull the battery and it 'should' reset the DME. However, drive it quite hard for the first 30 minutes or so if you can, as the DME will be learning your driving style again.

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Shell for me, their Nitro stuff is great. I love the way people think it is snake oil. Makes me chuckle. These cars have knock sensors on them, they can tell what octane the fuel is and the higher the octane the more advanced the timing is, increasing both power and economy, or I should say, move aw...

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I think the towing weights on the Z3 are pretty good, it can tow some that is 4m long and 1.8m wide as well, it is just the height thing that limits it really. I will be honest and never even knew anything about this until last week, one of the guys had bought a new E350 sport and it is not approved...

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Problem with that is the Z3 is only legally allowed to tow something with a maximum height of 1.3 metres, so they are probably blissfully unaware that they are driving with no insurance while towing that caravan. If they did end up having an accident it may cost them hundreds of thousands out of the...

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Super. These cars have maps on the DME for both fuels, 95 and 98, if you put 95 into your car it wil retard the timing slightly to cope with the lower octane fuel, I know when this was tested on a 530i a while back the difference was not much in regards to power, it was around 10bhp, so less than 5%...

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This arrived this morning..... http://www.zen104526.zen.co.uk/z3/redline.JPG Oh my lord!! After less than 5 miles the difference was astonishing. I used around 800ml of the ATF and then mixed that in with the MTL and put the other 500ml in. Even from cold the gears just feel so good, and no longer t...

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As the title says, I have decided to not install this in my car so it is up for grabs. For anyone who followed the development of these, Scooby designed the enclosure and used a hi end JL woofer to create a perfect sub for the Zeds. It goes in the rear where the storage area/oem sub would be. http:/...

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I just searched google images and then put the image url in [.img]url of image[./img]

Without the dots of course.

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Indy red....

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I was going to go with BMW's Indianaplois red in mine and then bottled it.

It is superb colour, very dark red, like and oxblood.

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Pics, pics pics!!!

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Sorry guys, completely missed these replies. Tom I sent you a PM did you get it? Grayf0x, I think I am going to get the bonnet, rear wings and doors done, I think at that point it will look great. Alan, I did it using the Furniture Clinic kit, I posted the info in the 'What have you done to your Z t...

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I think people remember back 15-20 years ago, they were comparing the 1.8 vs the 1.9tdi or the 318tds vs the 318i, both cars did the same 0-60mph and both had the same top speed, but the petrol was doing 25mpg and the diesel was doing 55mpg. It was a no brainer. But diesel only really works if you g...

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Petrol is a dead breed though, barely any 6cyl petrol BMW's sold these days. That's only because most of the UK car buying public are stupid. When I was doing 40k miles a year a diesel used to save me around £20 a week over the equivalent petrol model, and then I used to hear from people doing 12k ...

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bertiejaffa wrote:I still think you should sell the steering wheel to me

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Just retrimmed, but a little thicker than standard so more like the current sport wheels.

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Interior shot with the new steering wheel fitted...... http://www.zen104526.zen.co.uk/z3/stereringwheelfitted.jpg However, it seems I have my garage for at least 3 months more, maybe on a new long term lease, so I think for now I am going to remove this from sale and do a few more bits to it to make...

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And fitted....

Well chuffed with it, makes the whole car feel so much sportier, best £100 I have ever spent on a car.

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This has just arrived!!!!

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In Norfolk.

But would always be willing to meet somewhere if it helps.

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I might not be yet!! Had a text tonight from the guy who owns the garage asking me to bell him tomorrow, so fingers crossed!! The problem I have is back in 2008/9 they changed our on street parking to 30 min bays, and 'forgot' to sort out residents permits, and here we are some 5 odd years later sti...

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Doesn't it feel nice when you get something like that sorted!! Nice one.

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Looks like I have lost my garage, so deciding what to do here. I have a 98 plate 2.8i manual, I have only just bought it and started doing it up to get it perfect, the seats have been redone and I shoudl get my new M-Sport steering wheel from Royals tomorrow, so interior sorted. Have also fitted a n...

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UK cars are cheap full stop, if you look at the prices of new cars and contract hire prices we are well below the rest of Europe and other countries. Take a Mercedes E220cdi, spec that car in Germany to the same as the basic UK spec and it costs €51,000, where as over here it is £34,000. My brother ...

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I put a Pioneer 560BT unit in mine last week, it is iPhone and Android compatible and no fancy leads needed. It will play music from your phone or from apps on it, either wired or over bluetooth. The colour of the display and buttons, and the pixel array for that matter, match the BMW interior perfe...

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I know, some people!! :roll: :lol: The garage has been passed onto her son, who has in turn passed it on to a local letting agent, who we are now paying. However, if is part of an antiques centre and they have always wanted it, however, the agreement was that it was mine until I wanted to let it go,...

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Haha, I think you might be right. Although a bit worried about whether I'll be able to keep it at the moment. The lady we rent the garage off has just died and I am waiting to find out if I will be able to carry on renting it or even buy it. If I can't then not sure what I will do to be honest. I re...

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Couple of pics of the seats after the refurb, these were hard and shiny and the bolsters were getting very worn, drivers side anyway....

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I spent yesterday refinishing my seats. They were creased to buggery, hard and shiney and the bolster was in a right state. I used the Furniture Clinic kit to start from fresh to give them that 'just out of the factory' look. I wish I had taken some pics, but I was full of cold with a temperature an...

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Back in 2008 when I did that they were quite big, made different units for loads of different cars, often those that had a storage tray in the dash, but saw that and thought it would work in the 1 series.

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Looks like they have gone...
http://www.gpstar.de/

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Southernboy wrote:I like the look of the fitting in the last pic you posted. Which car does that fitting originate from?

That was just a generic one from a German company called GPStar.

Not sure if they are still trading though.

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I have done a few mods like this. This was a Sony Nav system fitted to the 1 series nav monitor, the screen would open/close with ignition..... http://www.zen104526.zen.co.uk/120d/123_sony_open.jpg Also fitted a GPStar nav system (Navigon based) to my first 1 series.... http://www.zen104526.zen.co.u...

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Also, turn the ignition to pos2 and then plug the reader in, or was it plug it in and then turn to position 2?

Try both ways, only one way works on my car. There was small print in the booklet explaining this was often the case.

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Yeah no problem at all.

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Liquid Leather is very good, but for the above seats I would go with the furniture clinic kit. Code CC10 for 10% off bringing it down to £50. You can recolour black to white with the furniture clinic kit, which shows it really is like new seats again. Liquid Leather say you can only go darker. I use...

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Yeah, but will be a bit of work. First you will need to get a heat gun on them and see if you can pull the leather tight again, if you can then they are worth refinishing. A kit from Furniture clinic will get them looking like new again. I would recolour the blue piping rather than trying to mask it...

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SRS reset tool arrived today. Had a bit of a panic as it kept giving me an error, but after reading the instructions it said turn the ignition on to pos 2 first and then plug it into the port, normally the other way round. This worked a treat and said that there was a short on the drivers side restr...

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I should just say, she said she loves it, but would only really want to take it out on a nice day with the roof down, and whenever that happens she has the dog and our son, therefore can't see when we will ever use it. She said a 4 seater cab would be far more suitable. Hmmm? I agreed to the cab thi...

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Yeah, suspension always worth doing. My only issue is my wife has just walked in and reckons she is not a fan of the car! :head: She was the one that fancied one, but said after years of BMWs she now prefers the more relaxed and comfy Mercs. She could have told me that last night before I spent £700...

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